Lost base for statue of Caius Iulius Rufinianus Ablabius Tatianus, governor of Campania. Abellinum (Campania). Mid fourth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Abellinum
Province:
Campania
Region:
Italy south of Rome, with Sicily
Details:
Uncertain provenance
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Unknown
Height(cm):
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Caius Iulius Rufinianus Ablabius Tatianus, governor of Campania
Position:
Civilian Imperial Office-Holders
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Council and people (ordo et polpulus) of Abellinum
Position:
Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest:
330
Latest :
360
MAIN REFERENCE
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, , 2942
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , X, 1125
Camodeca, G., I ceti dirigenti di rango senatorio equestre e decurionale della Campania romana, I, Napoli 2008, 45
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Tatiani. / C(aio) Iulio Rufiniano / Ablabio Tatiano, c(larissimo) v(iro), Rufi/niani oratoris filio, fisci pa/trono rationum summarum, /(6) adlecto inter consulares iudi/cio divi Constantini, legato pro/vinc(iae) Asiae, correctori Tusciae / et Umbriae, consulari Ae/miliae et Liguriae, pontifici /(11) Vestae matris et in colle/gio pontificum, proma/gistro sacerdoti Her/culis, consulari Cam/paniae, huic ordo splen/didissimus et populus /(17) Abellinatium, ob insignem / erga se benevolentiam et / religionem et integrit(atem) eius, /(20) statuam conlocandam censuit.
Trans:
[Statue of] Tatianus. To Caius Iulius Rufinianus Ablabius Tatianus, of clarissimus rank, son of Rufinianus the orator, patron of the imperial fisc (fisci patrono rationum summarum), enrolled among consulares by decision of the deified Constantine, legate of the province of Asia, governor (corrector) of Tuscia et Umbria, governor (consular) of Aemilia et Liguria, priest of mother Vesta and in the college of priests, deputy supervisor to the priest of Hercules (promagistro sacerdoti Herculis), governor (consularis) of Campania; the most splendid council and the people of Abellinum, on account of his remarkable benevolence to itself, his devoutness and integrity, decreed that a statue be set up to him.
